The AltStore is federating to Bluesky and the rest of the social web. Now developers and users can connect with each other on an open platform while drastically improving app discovery. I believe so much in this mission that I joined their board to help. rileytestut.com/blog/2025/10...

I wrote about OpenAI's ambitious platform play and the Cambridge Analytica flashbacks it inspired. Plus, Sam Altman takes my question about enshittification risk www.platformer.news/openai-dev-d...

I agree with Josh but with one caveat: Words can demoralize people. I have political science-y disagreements with people who say "America is now fascist," but more to the point, I don't want people to internalize the idea that it's all done and dusted. Trump is far weaker than may people realize.

What the generals, admirals and their senior enlisted face when they return from Quantico. My latest in @thebulwark.com www.thebulwark.com/p/questions-...

BREAKING: We just won in court — again. A federal judge BLOCKED Donald Trump’s unlawful attempt to DEPLOY 300 OF OUR NATIONAL GUARD TROOPS TO PORTLAND.

i personally prefer not to marinate in bot driven hate speech & science denial journals.plos.org/plosone/arti... and i hope bsky does not succumb to the forces that degraded most maybe all other social networks

Apple must continue to refuse the demand to create a backdoor into iCloud. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

Read: www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Dolomites and Venice Photography Workshop marcchi.com

Trump is moving ratepayers to high-cost, polluting power units to pay off his big polluter contributors. Electric bills will go up.

independent plc org, ietf, migrating back to bsky, patent pledge BROTHER WE ARE JUST GETTING STARTED

Bluesky runs on open protocols with open source code. Today we’re taking an additional step and making a patent non-aggression pledge to ensure that everyone can build confidently on our work. Learn more and read the pledge in our blog post: bsky.social/about/blog/1...

First Light Eastern Sierra Nevada and Owens River, California #photography #blackandwhite #art #leica #california

Here’s @tinanguyen.bsky.social detailing the results of the incredible settlement YouTube paid to Trump for no reason except cowardice www.theverge.com/policy/79135...

This long read in The Verge does a remarkable job of describing how Wikipedia's editing community works, the project's strengths and weaknesses, and the threats it faces. www.theverge.com/cs/features/...

“If the social platforms and language models that increasingly shape our understanding of the world are inscrutable black boxes, Wikipedia is the opposite, maybe the most legible, endlessly explainable information management system ever made." www.theverge.com/cs/features/...

you have to read this. A collection of "the dog ate my homework" excuses www.404media.co/18-lawyers-c...

I will say, watching the behavior of the Generals today, respectful but reserved and apolitical in the face of Trump was heartening. Hopefully the next generation of officers, the young ones, see that and take it to heart.

Trump shares apparent AI video promoting ‘medbed’ conspiracy theory

This isn’t right. Masked individuals raiding small businesses are endangering our communities, not making them safer.

One of the things I remember most about Steve Jobs is when he said that the iPhone would be replaced within just a few years as the tech grew old but Toy Story and Finding Nemo would last for generations because great stories live forever.

NBA Media Day is tomorrow, and preseason starts on Thursday. NBA Threads, we’re back!!

I love this. Thanks for sharing @adamkeiper.com

The much-hyped SIM farm the Secret Service seized uses readily available off the shelf tech that, very interestingly, has also become critical to ticket scalping. I, like others, am extremely not buying the idea that this was intended to take down the cell network www.404media.co/the-sim-farm...

I am so proud of @karaswisher.bsky.social for this podcast. I mean, I’m always proud of her and blown away and impressed… But this one in particular is a must listen. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/o...

“Today it’s @jamescomey.bsky.social. Tomorrow it could be you.” www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESJZ...

Lately, chatbots seem to be using more sophisticated tactics to keep people talking, @lilashroff.bsky.social reports. “For the most part, chatbait is simply annoying. But at the extreme, it might be dangerous.”

Kai Trump’s website is based in Ukraine

Whether you know a lot or nothing about Silicon Valley, this is a must read piece by my friend and former Wired bud Steven levy @stevenjayl. He has seen the evolution of tech from its beginnings. He knows everyone. Few have as powerful a lens. It’s just seminal. www.wired.com/story/silico...

Great great great @joshjohnsoncomedy.bsky.social on the whole Kimmel thing and the importance of fighting for free speech. I will note that even though the first 30 minutes don't seem to be about Kimmel, they're (1) hilarious and (2) set up the Kimmel stuff... www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tYd...

Here's NotebookLM's mind map for @pfrazee.com two recent leaflets on supporting private data in ATProto which might support your reading comprehension, as it did mine. 😌

We're launching a new show! MAN am I excited about this: it's called Version History, and it's like a history show and a rewatch podcast all in one insane adventure to figure out why things work, why they don't, and whether it matters. First episode is 10/5, like and subscribe and tell your friends!

Thank everyone who read @garbageday.email this week. Our Friday issue was read 500,000 times. www.garbageday.email/p/charlie-ki... Our coverage wouldn't be possible without @bumas.bsky.social, @cates.bsky.social, @ellievhall.bsky.social, @grantirving.bsky.social, and @joshfjelstad.bsky.social.

From @mmasnick.bsky.social: "Across the tech policy world, people who spent decades fighting for an open, accessible internet are now cheering as that same internet gets locked down" Kinda see this in the fair use debate too.

This is best story by far about the SIM farm uncovered in New York by Secret Service. The intent of the farm is not, as suggested by other stories, to disrupt Secret Service protection of dignitaries attending the UN or taking out mobile service for all NY but about managing criminal enterprises

Today is Platformer's fifth birthday! I wrote about the state of the newsletter economy, how the business is going, and what we're planning for year six www.platformer.news/platformer-y...

The serial website builder Riley Walz launched a project that tracked San Francisco parking enforcement in real time—until the public data feed was cut off. www.wired.com/story/san-fr...

This is a must watch from @stalman.bsky.social if you shoot video and photos on iPhone. www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBOh...

Today’s hot take on Raging Moderates: Trump’s WILD Address to the U.N. @ragingmoderates.bsky.social @jessicatarlov.bsky.social

very excited to share this update about bringing AT to the IETF! last week we uploaded two drafts to the IETF datatracker and today we heard that we’re approved to host a Birds of a Feather at IETF 124 (the formal meeting towards establishing a working group)

I know antifa isn't a real organization because I don't get 40 texts a week from them asking for donations.

Some initial thoughts on the requirements for AT's private data model

Surprise! A second leaflet on private data in AT, this time exploring some schemes that might be used to implement shared-private data.

After spending time with the new iPhone, I think that when next gen Siri ships on Apple's new private cloud LLM, it will become the main way most iOS users use AI. ChatGPT is strong now but Apple is on the threshold of enabling users to seamlessly ask anything with all their private data as context

NEW: 404 Media is suing ICE. We have filed a lawsuit demanding the agency release its $2 million contract with Paragon, a company that makes powerful spyware to break into phones and read messages from encrypted chat apps www.404media.co/were-suing-i...

Rolling Stone - “Trump’s most authoritarian week yet”: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol... Politico - “Trump urges Bondi to prosecute his rivals”: www.politico.com/news/2025/09... It’s happening fast.

VCs and founders warn that the $100K fee will make H-1B sponsorship prohibitively expensive for startups, not Big Tech, and drive talent outside the US (Taylor Soper/GeekWire) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink